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Jilly_in_VA

(12,338 posts)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 05:07 PM Saturday

Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men's club network spreading across US

A nationwide US network of dozens of far-right, men-only fraternal clubs has what members describe as “literally hundreds” of participants who include past and currently serving military personnel, lawyers, civil servants, and prominent antisemitic influencers, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

The Old Glory Club (OGC) – which has at least 26 chapters in 20 US states and until now has drawn little attention – exemplifies the alarming rise of organized racist political groups in the past few years but especially during the rise of Donald Trump and his return to the White House.

The OGC network has held conferences, meetups and other events. Key members like podcaster Pete Quinones use their platforms to push far-right ideas about Jewish people and immigrants. Other members have used their platforms to respond to political events, and to advocate measures including “cancellation insurance” for members whose extreme political views might impede their professional lives.

Harry Shukman, a researcher at UK anti-fascist non-profit Hope Not Hate, who last month published an exposé on the OGC-affiliated Basketweavers organization in the UK, told the Guardian: “Groups such as the OGC are a new breed of extremist organisation which aims first to build an offline social network before taking over society.”

He added, “They seek to lower the bar to participating in the far right, and by doing so have proved attractive to a cohort of mostly male members, some of whom have never before undertaken any form of activism.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/far-right-mens-clubs-old-glory

When fascism comes to America, it will come toting a bible and wrapped in the American flag. And here it is.

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Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men's club network spreading across US (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Saturday OP
The latest iteration of the Nazi Party. sop Saturday #1
That's so 1890's. JanMichael Saturday #2
The Pinkertons BidenRocks Saturday #9
It must be scratching some itch of modern men. Shipwack Saturday #10
It must be added that it's not just antisemitism, it's hate... brush Saturday #3
Yes but PCIntern Saturday #6
All lives matter? JoseBalow Saturday #18
What the hell. No communal hatred excuses. Black people... brush Saturday #19
Of course not but I'll tell you PCIntern Sunday #21
Huh? What a word salad reponse to me saying trump is anti-everybody but white rich... brush Sunday #23
Oh... PCIntern Sunday #25
Avoiding mentioning the war crimes going on in Gaza doesn't make them not war crimes. brush Sunday #26
Who did Nazi this coming...? regnaD kciN Saturday #4
A whole lot of draft-eligible rubes. czarjak Saturday #8
As a Jew I prefer this kind of rightwing antisemitism. nycbos Saturday #5
Point taken... PCIntern Saturday #7
"They seek to lower the bar to participating in the far right" flvegan Saturday #11
The OGC and its anti-semitism is a fascist front for anti-christianism. Judaism is Christianity's older brother. ancianita Saturday #12
YOUNGER brother Jilly_in_VA Sunday #22
White punks on dope! Godot51 Saturday #13
Sounds like nazis to me Iamscrewed Saturday #14
Trump and his MAGAts have made racism socially acceptable. TomSlick Saturday #15
Apparently they need masks when they become part of Krasnov's Gestapo. MLWR Saturday #16
Good point but I think the masked Gestapo is a different problem. TomSlick Saturday #17
Kick Demovictory9 Sunday #20
I'm guessing that they meet at some sort of hole. Orrex Sunday #24
The Ku Kross Klan, spreadin' across the land. MAGA my ass. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sunday #27
Spoiled brats SARose Sunday #28

Shipwack

(2,759 posts)
10. It must be scratching some itch of modern men.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:15 PM
Saturday

Sense of belonging, close friendships, reassurance that “it’s not their fault”, feedback about their superiority, etc…

brush

(60,505 posts)
3. It must be added that it's not just antisemitism, it's hate...
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 05:32 PM
Saturday

Black people and other people of color. It's ironic that some of these POCs, Palestinian/Gazan rights advocates in America, voted for and help trump and his antisemitic cabal win the '24 election.

PCIntern

(27,455 posts)
6. Yes but
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:01 PM
Saturday

let’s not trivialize the anti-Semitism which is often done. “Well, they hate everybody…”. Sorry, as a victim of violent anti-Semitism in my lifetime multiple times as a young person, I ain’t interested in communal hatred excuses. Fuck these Nazis with a rusty harpoon.

brush

(60,505 posts)
19. What the hell. No communal hatred excuses. Black people...
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 08:20 PM
Saturday

have been catching hell here for centuries. It's nothing new and neither is antisemitism. I'm just saying don't overlook Black and POC racism because trump and his cabal suddenly realize they can use the ruse of accusing Harvard and other higher educational institutions of antisemitism to sue for monetary gains and concessions.

You must know trump is anti-everybody but rich whites and anybody who helps keep rethugs in power. Even in Gaza he's just backing warmonger Netanyahu because he thinks it get him votes when all he really wants is to develop Gaza as beach front properties.

PCIntern

(27,455 posts)
21. Of course not but I'll tell you
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 05:14 AM
Sunday

that when a horrifying racist incident against blacks occurs, you don’t see a clause in a sentence that resembles, “the group that perpetrated this also hates Jews.” It stands as a violent incident based on the targeting of a specific group. Whenever Jews are attacked, there is a paragraph of explanation the this particular group or faction hates all minorities, somehow nearly-trivializing the fact that a Jewish victim or victims are involved because, well, because it COULDA BEEN anyone else from a number of minorities. It “just happened” to be Jews this time and we need to “move on”.

Ain’t “moving on” no more….not after October 7th.

brush

(60,505 posts)
23. Huh? What a word salad reponse to me saying trump is anti-everybody but white rich...
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:06 AM
Sunday

men, including being antisemitic and now using alleged antisemitism by higher educational institutions to sue for money and other concessions.

Just a straight-forward explanation, no Oct. 7 references pls without an acknowledgement of the extreme and overt continuing over retaliation/killing, starvation, bomb strikes and ethnic cleansing by warmonger Netanyahu still on-going in Gaza. Notices come daily of more killings by IDF forces who lure starving Gazans for food deliveries only to gun them down.

That's war crimes and all the world is watching. Shame.

PCIntern

(27,455 posts)
25. Oh...
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:20 PM
Sunday

So you’re going to tell me what I’m allowed to say and/or reference? I don’t think so.

You say it’s all war crimes, I say that these factions are gonna think more than twice about mutilating and killing Jews, something which never seems to concern your ilk too much.

DU rules expressly forbid my continuing to engage with you in the manner in which I would prefer.

brush

(60,505 posts)
26. Avoiding mentioning the war crimes going on in Gaza doesn't make them not war crimes.
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:26 PM
Sunday

Shame. Again, the world is watching. Why aren't you protesting warmonger Netanyahu's actions as well?

nycbos

(6,542 posts)
5. As a Jew I prefer this kind of rightwing antisemitism.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 06:58 PM
Saturday

Unlike leftwing antisemitism it is direct and honest unlike the gaslighting bs you get from the left.

flvegan

(65,119 posts)
11. "They seek to lower the bar to participating in the far right"
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:18 PM
Saturday

I don't know how to break it to them...

ancianita

(40,908 posts)
12. The OGC and its anti-semitism is a fascist front for anti-christianism. Judaism is Christianity's older brother.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:19 PM
Saturday

Western morality, along with concepts of the visible and invisible, psychology, law and justice came from Judaism. In the banality of their evil, only the godless global oligarchs would want to foist on humanity the chaos of an AI driven mafia system of governments and economies.

So call OGC the manboys' club, and then make sure to socially keep them confined to their playpen.

TomSlick

(12,550 posts)
15. Trump and his MAGAts have made racism socially acceptable.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:36 PM
Saturday

The Klan no longer needs robes and hoods.

TomSlick

(12,550 posts)
17. Good point but I think the masked Gestapo is a different problem.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 08:11 PM
Saturday

I am convinced the ICE Gestapo wear masks and no uniforms so we can tell if they are real ICE agents or simply thugs (or worse.)

SARose

(1,659 posts)
28. Spoiled brats
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:44 PM
Sunday

White privilege at its finest.

These people have never wanted for anything. They have never had to decide whether to put gas in the car or buy diapers.

They’ve never experienced too much month and not enough money.

They’ve only known prosperity and parents who worked their buns off to give them everything they wanted.

Let’s see how they feel once the BBB kicks in. Because they believe whole heartedly that none of that will affect them.

FAFO

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